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Work had piled up due to all the ti with Zach It had seerowing her business

Worth it, that is, until the e of love disappeared like a puff of s the damn puppy back?" At last, she could see the veneer he’d tried to put around hi But it was too late Especially when he said, "It wasn’t evenI never asked for it They just dumped it onperfectly honest She was far ry "Just like you said, she’ll be fine" Heather would n her best trainer to ith Megan, Suet that Zach Sullivan ever existed

"Then why are you leaving?"

Because she needed to save herself while there was still a ghost of a chance that she could recover

Because if he could give away a puppy she’d thought he absolutely adored without soas it cried for him, then she wasn’t sure she kneho he was at all

Because she didn’t think she rated a whole heck of lotin front of her

Because, in the end, it turned out love wasn’t enough Just like she’d always known

But since she could no longer trust hih to say any of that, all that calad, in fact, that she’d felt like her own life had been saved out there on the race track when he’d scra, knew any second she’d be falling apart

Heather couldn’t do that here Not in front of Zach She couldn’t let her guard down around hio, when she’d found out what her father had done, she’d vowed to never feel that way again, to never let anyone make her feel so terribly unloved, so unimportant She’d renew that vow, et out of there looking like she was still in one piece and then, when she was far, far away from him, she’d deal with the shattered insides beneath her skin

When Zach had nearly died she’d finally admitted to herself just how much she loved him She’d finally confessed down deep in her soul that she loved hiht she could love a man